Lead Project Strategist
In this pivotal role, you will collaborate closely with key stakeholders and business partners to define project scope, interpret requirements and priorities, and drive the modernization and transformation of systems. Your projects will primarily focus on infrastructure and application integrations, as well as other strategic initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
• Drive strategic project management decisions, governance, and long-term vision.
• Analyze divisional business requirements and translate these into technical deliverables organized as executive milestones (in/out of scope).
• Develop expert 'as is' knowledge of platform systems and help define 'to be' system solutions and flows (e.g., must understand before planning).
• Understand infrastructure requirements and deployment of solutions for on-prem and cloud computing service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
• Analyze data to identify key insights and apply them to the business; quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Ensure coordination of teams to drive timely completion of deliverables for large projects.
• Manage project financials, including resource allocations supporting a project's schedule.
• Define and provide KPIs and metrics for assigned projects.
• Interact closely with stakeholders and vendors and provide communications to executive management.
• Operationally troubleshoot or lead the troubleshooting of complex issues.
• Proactively ensure compliance with expected quality standards.
• Responsible for project-related organizational change management, including communications, training, and adoption.
• General understanding of infrastructure requirements to deploy solutions for storage, middleware, DB, voice specifics (call/contact centers), and network (routers, switches, firewalls, load balancing, WAF).
• Definition, implementation, and adoption of processes.
Requirements:
• Advanced English (mandatory)
• Bachelor's degree and solid experience in project/program management.
• Experience managing merger and acquisition infrastructure and application integration or divestiture projects preferred.
• Project Management Professional and/or Certified Scrum Master preferred.
• Experience managing requirements for multiple large, complex, and cross-functional projects. Emphasis on systems, technologies, business process redesign, and knowledge of technical environments.
• Experience producing detailed project plans and resource requirements.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills – comfortable speaking and writing interacting with C-level audiences, as well as technical and non-technical audiences.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, organizational, and negotiation skills.
• Proven ability to write business requirements, including user stories, use case development, and workflow documentation.
• Product and project management skills; business judgment, including ability to balance resources, evaluate and address risks, and concisely articulate where trade-off decisions are to be made.
• Strong orientation to user-base, including ability to understand needs and apply this knowledge to product enhancements, online user experience, and communication content (internal and external).